Sentences with phrase «small nations of the world»

In San Francisco, early in 1945, all of the great and most of the small nations of the world, with the exception of the defeated powers, signed the charter creating the United Nations.

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It currently has a population of four and holds the Guinness World Record for «the smallest area to lay claim to nation status.»

The Next Evolution of Marketing can be applied to billion - dollar brands or small businesses, to consumer marketers and B2B firms, in both highly developed markets and developing nations around the world.

Capital has concentrated to an extremely small segment of the population, who control immense amount of wealth and continues to divide the nation / world more deeply.

While the world's largest companies often dominate headlines, small businesses remain the lifeblood of our economy, employing nearly 58 million Americans and making up almost half of the nation's private sector jobs.

With the recent South Pacific International Communications cable link providing 4G to one of the world's smallest nations and by accepting the bitcoin economy, overseas transactions will be easier to facilitate.»

With just under 500,000 people, Malta is one of the world's smallest and most densely - populated nations.

You wouldn't immediately match an ultra-modern crypto currency with farmland investment in one of the smallest nations in the world, but tiny Vanuatu is blazing a trail for the use of bitcoin.

Then, instead of reading like the «Around Home» section or the obituary column of a small - town newspaper, it could have provided a more worthy document of the life and times of the ancient world, a register of the designs and deeds of the truly great men and nations of the ancient Near East.

John F. Kennedy promised: «We seek to strengthen the United Nations, to help solve its financial problems, to make it a more effective instrument for peace, to develop it into a genuine world security system... capable of resolving disputes on the basis of law, of insuring the security of the large and the small, and of creating conditions under which arms can finally be abolished... This will require a new effort to achieve world law».

When smaller nations resist, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank impose structural adjustment policies upon them on pain of their total exclusion from the international economic system.

In a larger country with a smaller population, Canadian evangelicals are more likely to support sharing resources and welcoming immigrants and refugees; they are less likely to feel a sense of «manifest destiny» or to see their country as a Christian nation, according to Brian Stiller, the Ontario - based global ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance.

A small number of farmers grow the food that feeds a nation and many other people around the world.

Isn't it amazing that though Israel has always been a relatively small nation, and few in number, they are still one of the world powers in military, science and economics?

There could be no ideal for a nation until there were smaller social units ready to unite and there can be no ideal for a world society without a prior actualization of national communities.

The Costa Rica international was a star of the World Cup, helping the small nation to their best ever finish in the quarter finals of the tournament.

And recognizing Chelsea FC as an international brand with supporters of every race, creed, and nation around the world, it has made the actions of a very small collection of morons all the more frustrating to come to grips with as a lone fan.

He worked out long ago that in a one - country - one - vote system a handful of votes from the smallest nations anywhere in the world cancel out the votes of the European footballing powerhouses.

In industrialized nations deaths were most likely to result from babies being born too small or too early, while in the developing world about half of newborn deaths were from infection, tetanus and diarrhea.

Public and private funding agencies in the United States, a nation whose prosperity has been generated in no small part by the infusion of human talent from all over the world, have a special responsibility to support these critical efforts.

The models predict that the number of people will be smaller in a richer world, as a larger number of developed nations result in lower birth rates.

Big soccer clubs in nations that host the World Cup enjoy significant bumps in attendance after the event, which provides at least a small ray of sunshine amid the howls of protest from Brazilians over the extravagant hosting costs.

While some women spend the GDP of small nations on hair - straightening treatments, the music world's sexiest stars have been rocking rin...

If imagination could be harnessed as an energy source, I suspect local filmmaker Robert Rodriguez could power a small nation all on his own, but after 90 minutes immersed in the video - game world of Spy Kids 3 - D: Game Over, one wishes he had diversified that imagination some.

In «Black Panther,» we are told of a small African nation that has the entire world fooled.

These scenes are mostly needless to Augustin's story, although they do offer a marginally interesting way of showing how the American media (and the world's for that matter) weren't very aware or interested in the mass genocide happening in a small African nation.

He has a sworn duty to protect his country and its otherworldly resource vibranium, which, unbeknownst to the rest of the world, has made this small nation unbelievably wealthy and technologically advanced — spaceships are a common conveyance.

Yet it could also very well positively affect the entire world in many ways — both large and small — as individuals and nations better themselves through a greater understanding of the world around them.

But if changing the world means thinking globally, acting locally, and taking small steps toward commendable goals, the students and teachers at Clackamas — one of the first green schools in the nation when their building opened in 2002 — are on track to make the planet a better place.

Thousands of educators and policymakers have visited Finnish schools and observed in classrooms to figure out why this small Nordic nation is leading the Western world in many education rankings.

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Americans rarely visit this small nation in South Asia because of a steep tourist tax and limited plane access, and the country is remarkably sheltered from outside influences: Bhutan's capital, Thimphu, is the only one in the world without a traffic light, and the king legalized television in the country just 12 years ago.

There are several countries in the world where Windows is smaller than Android and Asian nations are a good example of that.

One of the smallest nations in the world, New Zealand, has become a key trading partner with one of the largest, China.

Unlike the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which measures the performance of foreign stocks in smaller emerging countries, the EAFE Index concentrates on stocks in the larger, more industrialized nations of the world.

In the winter months, this small island nation is transformed into a magical world of black lava fields blanketed in snow, waterfalls flowing amid shimmering ice, and night skies painted with the northern lights and their great cascades of color.

Also known as the «Most Serene Republic of San Marino,» the world's fifth smallest nation is an enclaved microstate completely surrounded by Italy.

A country of 1.6 million people, we are still the smallest nation ever to reach the quarter finals of a World Cup.

As the Maldives — one of the world's smallest nations — grows to become the epitome of luxury beach breaks, traditional artisanal crafts sadly become lost as generations pass.

Although the small island nation is just 90 miles south of Key West, Florida, it might as well have been halfway around the world for U.S. travelers.

He moves effectively between the pastoral and the political, with small portraits of world leaders (mostly female and especially Angela Merkel) and larger scenes of protest, the United Nations logo on a television screen and also haunting landscapes, most of which suit the gravity of the times.

A full - size tapestry replica of Picasso's Guernica, a howl of rage at the bombing of a small Spanish town which has become one of the most famous anti-war images in the world, is coming on loan from the United Nations building in New York for the re-opening exhibition of the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

In 1980, the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth tagged Pillsbury to help build a world class collection and, in short order, he turned it into one of the great museums in the nation, expanding its small collection into one of true distinction.

President Mohammed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives, whose small island nation is existentially threatened by rising sea levles caused by climate change, has called on the world to set a target of returning the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere to 350

In Bali I was on the Delegations of Jamaica (my home island and a member state of the UN), and of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (an Intergovernmental Organization representing almost all Caribbean states), while also representing the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration project).

But he's gone further, building interactive images that mesh data and graphics in novel ways, including the figure below, which compares the cumulative emissions of the world's nations, large and small.

Considering that China, India, and South Africa said they could use about $ 200 billion a year to fight climate change — and that would be a small percentage of the combined GDP of the world's rich nations — the lower figure of $ 10 billion is indeed just a beginning.

Litia Malikano Maiava from Tokelau, a small Pacific Island with a population of 1500, gave the audience something to cheer about: «Although we are the smallest island in the world, we are the first nation in the world to rely on 100 % renewables.»

Beyond the Brazilian Amazon, the governments of Norway, the United States, and the United Kingdom are using public finance for avoided deforestation to support sustainable agriculture through the Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes, which funnels these payments through the World Bank's BioCarbon Fund to smaller forest countries or to individual states within larger nations, beginning with Ethiopia's Oromia State and Zambia's Luangwa Valley.

China is also a leading nation in the adoption of electric vehicles, large and small; in 2017 there were far more electric bicycles in China than in the rest of the world.